In Mysterious , we want to start a short tour of those supposedly haunted houses, which rise all over the world with their halo of mystery and disturbing decay.Walls that still contain interesting stories , past where I live the disaster or tragedy and we always love to remember.
If it is of your interest, today we will start with a mansion in southern Illinois , a house that Today it is still in perfect condition and it has become a center of tourist attraction for the past that is inscribed even on its walls and in its lands.
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«Crenshaw house», a clandestine business
We are in the beautiful state of Illinois, quiet settings that barely let us intuit even a memory of that dark past that was lived in many places throughout the century XIX.Crenshaw house, was built in 1830 to be the residence of Mr. John Crenshaw and his extended family.
He was not a good man at all.Mr.Crenshaw lived on a sadly habitual business, which as you can already intuit given the time, was the slave trade. Now, we have to point out something important, what really towards this landowner was to kidnap free blacks to sell them later.Something terrible.
It also had two salinas, being an incredibly profitable business because salt was one of the best ways to conserve food at this time.A landowner and slave trader who managed very cleverly to enrich himself, since we must also remember that Illinois was a free state, that is, the constitution of the State prohibited slavery except for one exception: for work in the salt mines .Such hard and destructive work that no free man wanted to take on.
Since Mr.Crenshaw was the only one who had Salinas in Illinois, was also the only person to have slaves, so we can say that he was one of the richest men in the country.He had a small army of men who dedicated themselves to going out at night to "hunt" men of color, free blacks to kidnap to sell to those states where slavery was allowed, or to extort them in order to go to work at the salt mines of Mr.Crenshaw.
The House of Wailing
But let's talk about the house now.Hedgehog the skin knowing that under it, a whole tunnel opened that communicated with the salt mines.It even had some small roads where a wagon could circulate, where to clandestinely charge the people it kidnapped and that later, he took home.Men, women and children who were locked in small cells in the mansion and who were transported daily to the salt mines to work.A route that was carried out in the basement and almost always at night.
Slaves remained locked in the house like animals.It is known that on one occasion he kidnapped to the wife of a man only for personal pleasure, to have her in one of his small cells. This ended up raising rumors and suspicions, the husband denounced him and there were many who approached the house in search of of explanations.The complaints and even the attacks arrived.They burned their barns, their sawmills… It was known that many men and women died even of starvation in that house, but it took a long time to react.
One of their slaves came to cut off his leg with an ax, an attack that finally led to his business defeat.Everyone knew what happened there, and although no direct accusation was made, what happened, is that nobody wanted to establish more business relationships with Mr.Crenshaw.A funky way of gi rare face, but finally and after all, it was his end. His defeat.
When the Civil War arrived, the house was abandoned forever.Filling with emptiness, wounds and laments.The cold cries of all the slaves who died there, and whose footprints are still seen on the walls, in that clandestine basement, in the tiny cells where cold breezes and ghostly voices that sing old songs from an era of misunderstanding, madness and slavery are contained., there is no doubt.Almost constant strange phenomena that have since woven the legend of the Crenshaw mansion.
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Image: Occult World, Kenny Harrelson
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